"The only other time that I was ever really saved was by a ferryman, and father gave him some money, which was all right for him, but wouldn't do for you two, you know; and another time there wasn't really any danger, and I'm sorry the man got anything; but he did.
"We brought scarcely anything with us, because we didn't expect to need things in this way; but this is my own, and I want to give it to you both.

One of you can't use it by himself, and so it will be more like a present for both of you together, than most things would be." And she handed me a box of dominoes.
"I give it to you because you're the oldest, but, remember, it's for both of you." Of course we took it, and Corny was much pleased.

She was a good little girl and, somehow or other, she seemed to be older and more sensible when she was with us than when she was bouncing around in the bosom of her family.
We had a good deal of talk together, and, after a while, she asked how long we were going to stay in St.Augustine.
"Until next Tuesday," I said, "and then we shall start for Nassau in the 'Tigris.'" "Nassau!" she exclaimed, "where's that ?" "Right down there," I said, pointing out to sea with a crook of my finger, to the south.

"It's on one of the Bahamas, and they lie off the lower end of Florida, you know." "No," said she; "I don't remember where they are.

I always get the Bahamas mixed up with the Bermudas, anyway.